Curious Cook: A (possible) future of meat

According to the columnist, machines producing 3D printed meat can make about 10kg of meat in an hour. — Photos: Reuters

In an interesting development, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is currently working with a Russian biotech firm to ‘bio-print’ chicken nuggets for sale in some of its shops. The base ingredients appear to be animal cells grown from chicken cells combined with plant material to reproduce the processed chicken meat used in conventional chicken nuggets.

The tastes are conferred by seasonings in the flour usually used to coat the nuggets before deep frying. The initial target market appears to be Russia, where they hope to get approval for sales over the next two years or so.